Watch case support



Nov. 4, 1958 B. DITESHEIM WATCH CASE SUPPORT Filed April 13, 1956 byv vqwft) f: L M/rmard DMZ-"SW MFUKMLW United States Patent WATCH CASE SUPPORT Bernard Ditesheirn, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, assignor to Fabriques Movado, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, a Swiss firm Application April 13, 1956, Serial No. 578,020

Claims priority, application Switzerland September 24, 1955 2 Claims. (Cl. 58-88) My invention has for its object a watch case with a protecting sheath, said sheath including two sections or caps adapted to slide over the case and a pivoting stay for setting the watch on a support, after the manner of a photograph frame.

According to my invention, said stay is pivotally secured through the ends of its parallel arms in the bottom of the case, each of said arms being subjected to the action of a spring blade secured to said bottom and which, when the stay is in its position of use, engages the end of the corresponding arm so as to exert on the stay a stress adapted to prevent the folding of said stay over the bottom of said case.

I have illustrated in accompanying drawings a preferred embodiment of a watch according to my invention. In said drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plain view of the watch case with its sheath partly shown sectionally.

Fig. 2 is a cross-section through line IIII of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows the connection between the stay and the watch bottom on a larger scale.

Fig. 4 is a separate view of the spring holding the stay in its collapsed position.

As illustrated, 1 designates a watch case mounted inside a sheath including two caps 2 and 3 adapted to slide over the case towards or away from each other, so as to entirely cover the latter or else so as to uncover the watch dial.

To the bottom of the case is pivotally secured a stay 4, including two parallel interconnected arms which are provided at corresponding ends with trunnions or piovts 5 engaging bearings carried outwardly by the bottom of the case. To said bottom is secured in register with each arm of the stem a spring blade 6, the free section 7 of which is in the shape of a U, the convexity of which faces the corresponding arm of the stay 4. When the stay is in its operative position holding the watch in a slanting position as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, said free section 7 engages the end of the corresponding arm and exerts on the latter a stress holding the stay in the position re- 2,858,662 Patented Nov. 4, 1958 "ice referred to. A spring blade 9, secured to the rear of the bottom of the case, along a line parallel to and diametrically opposed to the line connecting the bearings 5 and inside a recess formed in said case bottom, has its ends 10 and 11 turned inwardly to face the arms of the stay and when the latter is folded back over the bottom of the case these ends engage said arms, and hold the stay in its folded position against the action of the springs 6.

What I claim is:

1. A support for a substantially rectangular watch case comprising a stay including two interconnected parallel arms the free ends of which are inwardly rounded and are pivotally secured to spaced points of an edge of the case bottom, said arms being adapted to rest through their opposite ends on the same horizontal surface as the edge of the case opposed to the first-mentioned edge, flat springs extending over the bottom of the case in planes perpendicular to said edges and passing through the piovtal connection of the arms and terminating each near the pivotal connection of the corresponding arm with a short outwardly convex section engaging yieldingly through its outer surface the rounded section of the corresponding arm to urge the stay away from the case bottom.

2. A support for a substantially rectangular watch case comprising a stay including two interconnected parallel arms the free ends of which are inwardly rounded and are pivotally secured to spaced points of an edge of the case bottom, said arms being adapted to rest through their opposite ends on the same horizontal surface as the edge of the case opposed to the first-mentioned edge, flat springs extending over the bottom of the case in planes perpendicular to said edges and passing through the pivotal connection of the arms and terminating each near the pivotal connection of the corresponding arm with a short outwardly convex section engaging yieldingly through its outer surface the rounded section of the corresponding arm to urge the stay away from the case bottom, and a spring blade engaging the bottom of the case along a line parallel with and adjacent its second mentioned edge and including inturned ends adapted to yieldingly snap over the last-mentioned ends of the stay arms to hold said stay in a collapsed position over the bottom of the case.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 321,402 Tyrrill June 30, 1885 1,599,812 Eellis Sept. 14, 1926 1,908,150 Huguenin May 9, 1933 FOREIGN PATENTS 34,774 Switzerland Oct. 19, 1905 220,516 Great Britain Aug. 21, 1924 

